Israel has sentenced a former soldier to four and a half years in prison for leaking classified documents to a journalist who used them to expose an alleged army policy to assassinate wanted Palestinian militants in violation of court rulings.

Anat Kam, 24, was convicted in February for copying 2,085 military documents on to a disc as she completed her mandatory army service and passing some of them to Uri Blau, an investigative reporter with the left-leaning Haaretz newspaper.

She escaped the much more serious charges of harming state security after reaching a plea bargain.

Her case provoked a domestic uproar  in part because she was held for four months under secret house arrest with the Israeli media banned from reporting on it, but also because it was viewed as an assault on the freedom of the press.

As a clerk in the Israeli Defence Forces' central command, Ms Kam stumbled across documents that appeared to point to the premeditated killing of Palestinian militants in the West Bank, despite a Supreme Court ruling that severely restricted such operations, determining that the army should arrest suspects if possible.

[]Israel has sentenced a former soldier to four and a half years in prison for leaking classified documents to a journalist who used them to expose an alleged army policy to assassinate wanted Palestinian militants in violation of court rulings. Anat Kam, 24, was convicted in February for copying 2,085 military documents on to a disc as she completed her mandatory army service and passing some of them to Uri Blau, an investigative reporter with the left-leaning Haaretz newspaper.

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Only 4.5 years? That's ridiculous. Should've been 14.5 in some gulag, at least. But she's lucky to be an israeli dumb leftist. Had she been chinese, russian, american, british, etc, ...

Not only does the IDF ignore International Law on Assassinations, it also ignores The israeli Supreme Court ruling that severely restricted such operations, determining that the army should arrest suspects if possible. Do unto other as you wish done to you

If israeli war criminals refuse to face trial by the ICC, should they be "taken out"?

Do the Israelis support assassinating Israeli citizens that have never been charged with, tried or convicted of a crime? How about their kids?

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That would be America

U.S. Drone Strike Kills 16 Year-Old American Citizen

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A wave of CIA drone strikes targeting al-Qaeda figures in Yemen is stoking widespread anger there that U.S. policy is cruel and misguided, prioritizing counterterrorism over a genuine solution to the countrys raging political crisis.

Politics has never been a concern to Sam al-Homiganyi and his fellow teenagers. This month, though, they were shocked by the sudden death of a friend and are struggling to understand why.

Fighting back tears, his gaze fixed downward, al-Homiganyi, a lean-looking 15-year-old from the outskirts of Sanaa, told TIME, He was my best friend, we played football together everyday. Another of his friends spoke up, gesturing to the gloomy group of jeans-clad boys around him: He was the same as us. He liked swimming, playing computer games, watching movies you know, normal stuff.

The dead friend was Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a 16-year-old born in Denver, the third American killed in as many weeks by suspected CIA drone strikes in Yemen. His father, the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, also an American citizen, was killed earlier this month, along with alleged al-Qaeda propagandist Samir Khan, who was from New York. When Abdulrahmans death was first reported in the Western press, his age was given as 21 by local Yemeni officials. Afterward, however, the Awlaki family put out a copy of Abdulrahmans birth certificate.

Not only does the IDF ignore International Law on Assassinations, it also ignores The israeli Supreme Court ruling that severely restricted such operations, determining that the army should arrest suspects if possible. Do unto other as you wish done to you

If israeli war criminals refuse to face trial by the ICC, should they be "taken out"?

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War criminals is in your mind.

You who want the end of Israel call foul when Israel defends itself after preemptive Arab wars.

Not only does the IDF ignore International Law on Assassinations, it also ignores The israeli Supreme Court ruling that severely restricted such operations, determining that the army should arrest suspects if possible. Do unto other as you wish done to you

If israeli war criminals refuse to face trial by the ICC, should they be "taken out"?

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War criminals is in your mind.

You who want the end of Israel call foul when Israel defends itself after preemptive Arab wars.

Sorry, not happening Jos.

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I do not call for the end of Israel, I point out that if it continues on it's present coarse It will bring about it's own demise and will "vanish from the page of history"

Not only does the IDF ignore International Law on Assassinations, it also ignores The israeli Supreme Court ruling that severely restricted such operations, determining that the army should arrest suspects if possible. Do unto other as you wish done to you

If israeli war criminals refuse to face trial by the ICC, should they be "taken out"?

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War criminals is in your mind.

You who want the end of Israel call foul when Israel defends itself after preemptive Arab wars.

Sorry, not happening Jos.

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I do not call for the end of Israel, I point out that if it continues on it's present coarse It will bring about it's own demise and will "vanish from the page of history"

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That I will leave up to G-d. G-d is the creator of Nations and reserves that right to himself alone. Israel is re-created once again, and strong. If the L-rd wishes it destroyed it will be and if the L-rd does not wish it destroyed it will not be.

Your crystal ball does not have all the facts in the mundane world and NONE of the facts in H-s world imo.

I await the L-rd's coming. Not man's coming to destroy Israel. Our book tells us this comes.

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